"The NSA spends $250m a year on a program which, among other goals, works with technology companies to 'covertly influence' their product designs" to break encryption on the Internet used in email and other forms of private communication.

Former President Bill Clinton says states not implementing exchanges are "leaving money on the table," but under Obamacare, states that do not set up their own exchanges will simply default to a federal exchange that will dispense subsidies.

"The opposition says the government of Mr Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, may have spent billions of dollars on programmes to garner votes from the poor but has failed to invest in the upkeep and expansion of the electrical grid to meet growing demand."

The basic premise of those who believe that health care is a right is that the man or woman who spent their teens and twenties training to be able to provide patient's the best possible medical treatment effectively becomes the slaves of the state due to the importance of their work.

Obama proposes to ignore or worsen the root cause of much of the explosion in student costs: the federal financial assistance programs that encourage schools to raise costs and that haven't achieved their goals of providing college access to low-income Americans.